Inside The Wire 419 | January 2019
2018 Rewind. Illustration by Jean Jullien
31 2018 Rewind: the year in underground music
32 Releases of the year We asked our contributors to nominate their top ten records, CDs, downloads and streams of the year, then we counted up the votes
38 Critics’ reflections Our contributors look back on 2018’s cultural highs and lows
39 Black Noise Reclaiming the racket. By Moor Mother
40 Climate Sounds Blowing hot and cold. By Lewis Gordon
43 Minimal Rock Beat the repeat. By Marc Masters
44 Jazz & Protest Freedom fighters. By Daniel Spicer
47 Four/Four Deconstruction time again. By Chal Ravens
49 Columnists’ charts Our specialist critics select music that rocked their corner of the subculture, from avant rock to the outer limits
52 Artists’ reflections A cast of 2018’s most active movers and shakers shine the spotlight on their cultural year
55 Archive releases of the year Our contributors voted for their top ten archival records, CDs, downloads and streams, and we counted them all up
4 Masthead 6 Letters 8 Bitstream News and more from under the radar
10 Unofficial Channels Hiphop Demos
114 Out There Festivals, concerts, gigs and club listings
120 Subscribe Print, digital, downloads and CDs
12 Kepla & DeForrest Brown Jr The transatlantic duo document the passage of the black body. By Emily Pothast
14 Still House Plants Lo-fi, post-punk and improv meet in the
Glaswegian trio’s music. By Claire Biddles
16 Jasmine Guffond The Berlin based artist bitcrushes herself into oblivion. By Abi Bliss
18 Big Joanie Handclaps and punk praxis drive the London
DIY trio. By Claire Sawers
Global Ear 20 Brasilia Artists in the Brazilian capital find private solutions to public problems. By Phil Jones
Invisible Jukebox 22 Meg Baird & Mary Lattimore Will the The Wire’s mystery record selection force the US folk duo to give up the ghost? Tested by Abi Bliss
90 The Inner Sleeve Ectoplasm Girls on Tårtan
122 Epiphanies Vietnamese guitar music sends Elliott Sharp on a fantastic voyage
62 Reviews Index 63 Soundcheck New vinyl, CDs, downloads and streams, plus reissues and specialist columns, including:
65 Discus Music Sheffield of dreams. By Julian Cowley
71 Don Byron & Aruán Ortiz Double happy. By Daniel Spicer
75 Shohei Amimori Artificial kid. By Emily Bick
86 Charles Mingus/Eric Dolphy Rediscovered masters. By Philip Clark
91 Print Run New music books: Downtown pop, Wilco,
Buffy Sainte-Marie, and more
96 On Screen New films and DVDs: Cristian Vogel & The
Automatic Message’s Agnete And The Merman; Tom Surgal’s Fire Music
97 On Location Recent festivals, gigs and clubs: Cropped
Out 8, Le Guess Who?, Éliane Radigue, Abdullah Ibrahim, and more
101 On Site Recent exhibitions: Ivor Cutler, London, UK;
From The Port To The Bridge, Greenock, UK; Eavesdropping, Melbourne, Australia
